Started with one market stall in Abeokuta.
Mara Goods began when our founder took a visiting friend to her grandmother's adire stall — and watched a middleman buy the entire table's work for a tenth of what it would sell for abroad. The question that followed became a company: what if the people who made the cloth priced the cloth?
Today we work with weaving cooperatives across Nigeria, Ghana, Mali, Côte d'Ivoire, and Burkina Faso. Artisans set their prices first; we add our margin on top, openly. Every piece ships with the maker's name, region, and technique on the label — because anonymous craft is how craft gets cheap.
— Damilola Mara, founder
Slow cloth, by design.
Woven in strips
Kente and aso oke are woven on narrow looms in strips barely a hand wide, then sewn edge to edge. A single stole is days of work; a full wrap is weeks.
Indigo & river mud
Adire is bound, folded, and dipped in indigo up to ten times to reach full depth. Bogolan is painted with fermented mud, sun-cured, and washed — a month from start to finish.
Signed, not anonymous
Every finished piece is logged to its maker. The label on your cloth carries their name and cooperative — and they earn on every restock of their pattern.